Quotes About Leadership

I realize that every time we discuss a job placement and look at a list of both male and female candidates, there's a question that comes up pretty much all the time for the woman: 'Will she know how to assert herself?' It's not meant to be malicious. It's more, 'Will she manage to take leadership of the team you want to entrust to her?'

I never said I could save Braddock. It's not about me. It was never even just about Braddock. It was a metaphor. Places like this matter.

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

There are only two places in the league - first place and no place.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

While Secretary Napolitano may be gone, she will not be forgotten. Her inaction and incompetence on border security will continue to plague our nation for years to come.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was a revolutionary, simple and plain.

I'm plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.

Trump's overriding accomplishment is plain: The Republican Party can no longer be shamed.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

When you have a chance to get Phil Jackson to run your team, you just do it, plain and simple.

When you sign up for Team Canada, we look for the best way to do things, plain and simple.

The biggest was me running Lionhead at its peak. That was about 305 people. I'd say that was, for me as a creative, one of the most hellish times of my life. Normally running a team is like herding cats. This was like herding the entire African plains.

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

I have no doubt that the Palestinian Arab leadership made a mistake when it did not accept the partition plan in 1947, but I want to try to understand it.

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

Roy Hodgson is a very good manager with a clear plan.

I plan on being a friend, a good leader and a good governor over these next three years.

Yes, I definitely plan to direct at some point.

From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.

The New Deal exists principally on an emotional plane for Obama. To him, the New Deal is something you play like a song, to make you or your constituents feel better.

The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and counterproductive one. Winston Churchill was a depressive. He didn't just fly planes; he was in charge of the Royal Air Force.